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Fairy Tale
see all genres ›Those unforgettable, scary, magical and sometimes instructive whimsies of childhood were always natural raw material for film’s fantastical trickery.
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Genres / Fantasy / Fairy Tale
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Bavel's Book
The imaginative possibilities of animation and reading are intertwined in this spirited Koji Yamamura short. Two kids find a dusty book on a park bench and soon become immersed in a "Robinson Crusoe"-like adventure. They’re in for a jolt, however, when their desert island starts swimming. Yamamura’s painted frames swell with...Start your free trial to watch
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Cinderella
French film pioneer Georges Méliès found the tale of Cinderella irresistible, producing a five-minute, full-color version in 1899 and this twenty four-minute version in 1912. Abandoning his earlier approach of hand-tinting each figure in favor of full-frame color tinting, he lavishes his attention on elaborate invention,...Start your free trial to watch
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Cinderella
An elaborately produced version of the well known fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham. Although in-camera trick photography is important for the story, it is rather conventional, having been introduced over ten years earlier by French filmmaker Georges Méliès....Start your free trial to watch
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Cinderella 2000
Drive-in movie legends Al Adamson and Sam Sherman (DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) created some of the most outrageous, colorful and beloved 'B' pictures ever to hit the silver screen. Adamson's CINDERELLA 2000 takes the popular Brothers Grimm fairy tale into the farthest reaches of a way-out future and puts an Orwellian spin on...Start your free trial to watch
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Deadly Snail vs. Kung Fu Killer
In this kung fu fantasy, a daring duel of powers between the fairies finds the young mortal Cheung rescuing the Sky Mussel Fairy. His bravery is not repaid, however, as Cheung is driven out of his home by his uncle. Now Cheung must struggle to stay alive in a world of gods and demons with only his kung fu...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fairy
Dom works as a night clerk at a small hotel in the industrial port city of Le Havre. One night, a strangely dressed woman named Fiona arrives and claims she is a fairy. She grants Dom three wishes, and makes his first two wishes come true before mysteriously vanishing. By now, Dom has fallen in love with Fiona, and he...Start your free trial to watch
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The Good Sheperdess and the Evil Princess
The Cinderella story gets a fresh spin in this enchanting fantasy from pioneering French director Georges Méliès. A nimble fairy whisks the kind shepherdess (spelled "sheperdess" in the English title) into a charmed realm of beauty and dance, while the noisome princess is brought down a few pegs in life,...Start your free trial to watch
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Greedy Humpty Dumpty
This COLOR CLASSICS cartoon elaborates upon the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme with touches from the myth of Icarus and Mother Goose. The roly-poly egg is a moneyed tyrant in this telling. He imagines that the sun is a giant ball of gold in a frankly hallucinatory sequence and commands the villagers to build...Start your free trial to watch
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Hansel and Gretel
What if Hansel and Gretel decided to stay in the gingerbread house and look for new parents who would love them forever? When Eun-soo gets lost in the country, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairy-tale house in the woods. Trapped with the girl and her ageless siblings, he soon learns that all...Start your free trial to watch
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Fairy tales constituted one of the earliest and most successful forms of elaborate storytelling on film, notably Georges Méliès's CINDERELLA (1899) and BLUE BEARD (1902). Inspired by such European achievements, Porter made this ten-shot fiction film that told its story in a clear, yet elaborate manner. It...Start your free trial to watch
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The Knight of the Snows
Georges Méliès avails himself of fabulous painted sets, lavish costumes, acrobatics and editing tricks to satisfyingly transpose the imaginative domain of the fairy tale into cinema. The plot turns on a spurned suitor who sells his soul to the devil to capture his beloved princess. Enter the shining knight...Start your free trial to watch
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Little Lamby
Riffing on "Little Red Riding Hood," this Dave Fleisher cartoon sends a wolf in disguise looking for his lunch amongst a town of unsuspecting innocents. The wolf proposes a baby contest, suggesting a “big prize to prettiest and healthiest baby (should be kind and tender),” where he settles on a stew with Little Lamby. The...Start your free trial to watch
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The Little Stranger
The Fleischer Studios revisit the "Ugly Duckling" story for this installment of the COLOR CLASSICS series. A non-aquatic bird tearfully drops her egg in a duck’s nest. Hatched, the little chick struggles to quack and waddle along with its siblings. The vibrant three-strip Technicolor animation comes alive...Start your free trial to watch
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Lurk
“Happy with his luscious daughter Aurora in a rustic setting, Professor Borealis has devised an improved brain and is ready to transplant it. The humor is tenderly black. Burckhardt’s fusion of documentary-type photography with fairytale storyline is nearer Keystone than avant-garde with its visual honesty and particular...Start your free trial to watch